The horror of Hiroshima

Junod worked for the ICRC in Ethiopia and then in Europe. (Picture: ICRC)

Nakaku, near Hiroshima, after the bomb. (Picture: Satsuo Nakata, ICRC)

Nagasaki's turn came on August 9, 1945. (Picture: ICRC)

A wooden house in Ozumachi, about 2.5km from the centre of the Hiroshima explosion. (Picture: Satsuo Nakata, ICRC)

What nuclear fission does to flesh. (Picture: Masami Onuka, ICRC)

Another victim. (Picture: Masami Onuka, ICRC)

Marcel Junod visiting the Japanese office for prisoners of war in Hiroshima. (Picture: ICRC)

Junod has a monument in Hiroshima. (Picture: Luc Chessex, ICRC)

This content was published on July 27, 2005 2:54 PMJul 27, 2005 - 14:54

Hiroshima in Japan was devastated by an atomic bomb 65 years ago.

Marcel Junod was the first foreign doctor to visit Hiroshima after the atomic bomb wiped out the city. He arrived in Japan on August 9 - three days after the bombing - bringing 15 tons of aid to the survivors. In the 1930s and during the Second World War,